Reposted by @nicolozennaro.bsky.socialBack to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026‼️Publication alert‼️📯Born under Mercury: God’s Influence on the Future Perspective of the Medieval Italian Merchant by dr. Nicolò Zennaro www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/... 173
Reposted by @nicolozennaro.bsky.socialBack to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026‼️New article alert: our project colleague's article was just published! Open access and all... 122
Reposted by @nicolozennaro.bsky.socialBack to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025We have just put the Zotero bibliography of the Back2theFuture project online. www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/... Throughout the project we have built this bibliography which we hope can serve the scholarly community #skystorians interested in the following subjects:uantwerpen.be | Back to the Future | University of Antwerp 164
Reposted by @nicolozennaro.bsky.socialBack to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Today the Conclave starts in the Sistine Chapel. In a previous post on our blog, @nicolozennaro.bsky.social & @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social wrote about the conclave of 1394. Jeroen now moves to that of 1559 and to the subject of betting on the next pope.shorturl.atThe Antwerp BourseThe Antwerp Bourse 041
Reposted by @nicolozennaro.bsky.socialBack to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025To end this thread and the conference: Nicolò Zennaro (Back2theFuture) presented a chapter from his PhD (which he was still writing at that time). Nicolò uses the wealth of the medieval Datini archive. The title of his talk: The Ermine’s game. Mercantile futures and warfare in late medieval Veniceyoutu.beNicolò Zennaro: The Ermine’s Game: Mercantile Futures and Warfare in Late Medieval VeniceYouTube video by Jeroen Puttevils 133
Reposted by @nicolozennaro.bsky.socialBack to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · 26/04/2025The passing away of Pope Francis I and the funeral that is about to take place made a few members of the Back to the Future team think about historical futures and the deaths of popes, their funerals and the ensuing conclaves. 132
Reposted by @nicolozennaro.bsky.socialBack to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Nicolò Zennaro is the first in line and he has found stunning details in the famous letters of the Datini company on the death of Antipope Clement VII in Avignon in 1394. This leads him to reflect on parallels to what is happening today and in the near future. medium.com/@JeroenPutte...medium.comReturning to the Home of the Father.This blogpost is intended for our project website Back to the Future | Back to the Future | University of Antwerp (due to technical… 142
Reposted by @nicolozennaro.bsky.socialBack to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Our team member Nicolò Zennaro will defend his PhD dissertation next week, on Friday 9 May. You can attend when you're in Belgium! He has also written a blogpost on his dissertation for the blog of the Faculty of Arts @uantwerpenfsw.bsky.social of @uantwerpen.be . blog.uantwerpen.be/bladspiegel/...blog.uantwerpen.bePandemics, Natural Hazards, and Wars. Past Futures to Cope with Present-Day Disasters - bladspiegelNicolò Zennaro studied how medieval merchants created and used future expectations concerning their private lives and business to react to risks and disasters in late medieval Venice. 162
